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Poor mental health in transgender people is primarily the product of social stigma and violence. This counters the view that being transgender is itself pathological.
The Nullarbor is an arid, treeless expanse today. But several hundred thousand years ago it was home to a menagerie of species, including two newly discovered giant cuckoo-like birds.
It makes no sense to continue relationship counselling in a therapist’s office – it is far better to do it in the more natural environment of the home.
Il y a un peu plus de 200 ans, le capitaine français prit le large à la découverte de l’Australie. Avec son équipage composé de scientifiques, il en captura les beautés naturelles.
You can drive across Singapore (population 5.5 million) in 45 minutes – roughly the same time it takes to reach Gawler from the Adelaide CBD. As an equatorial island, the climate is warm all the year round…
To understand how some creatures evolved, you need to see how their brain developed over millions of years. That’s now possible thanks to some clever use of scanning technology.
Mike Lee, Flinders University and Paul Oliver, Australian National University
La Terre est couverte d’espèces variées, des plus grandes aux plus petites. Mais nous pensons maintenant qu’il pourrait y avoir dix fois plus d’espèces que l’on pensait à l’origine.
The drive the get more women involved in science should start at an early age. But as one space researcher found out, girls can get nudged out of science at school.
A little over 200 years ago, the French captain Nicolas Baudin set out to map the uncharted coast of Australia. With a crew of scientists on board a ‘floating laboratory’, they recorded a snapshot of Australia before it was Australia.
Millions of people need to be confident that suitable public toilets will be available when they leave their homes. A shortage of such facilities is a serious problem for an ageing population.
Military institutions and militarised cultures seek to generate a unity of people and purpose. Initiation rituals have been a historically stable strategy to achieve this.
Mike Lee, Flinders University and Paul Oliver, Australian National University
The Earth is full of many varied species from the largest mammals to the tiniest organisms. But we now think there could be ten times more species than was originally thought.
They should be our pre-eminent national writing prizes. Instead, these awards bob on the vast sea of daily politics, occasionally getting dumped by a breaker.
One of the enduring controversies in evolution is why snakes evolved their long, limbless bodies. A new study suggests snakes may have lost their legs at sea, before crawling ashore.
For the comic protagonist, the literary critic Northrop Frye once observed, life is something you get through. While tragic characters die in plangent splendour, and Marvel superheroes vanquish tech-spangled…
Research Associate, Childhood Dementia Research Group, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University